This must be taking place in an alternate Peanuts Universe – Sally and Linus are calmly sitting next to each other at the movies! I remember a number of occasions where Sally wanted to sit with her “sweet Babboo” at the movies, and Linus didn’t want any part of it. Here, he’s happy to be watching the film in Sally’s company, and Sally isn’t as excited as one would have expected her to be.
Saturday matinees at the Whiteman Air Force Base theater in Missouri were 25 cents in the mid-1960s. There would be a newsreel, a back-and-white weekly serial from the 1940s or 1950s and then a family rated movie. What is more, our parents would give us the money for the movie in addition to our weekly allowance just to get us out of the house for a couple of hours. We would meet our friends there and everybody would try to get a seat as close to the front row as possible.
Must be nice to live so near a movie theater. We never lived that close to one so when mom wanted us out of the house she just told us to go play outside.
Templo S.U.D. almost 3 years ago
Why else?
ronaldspence almost 3 years ago
You can tell this is an old comic, 10 million dollars (makes me think of Dr. Evil!)
Wilde Bill almost 3 years ago
What? Your invisible mother who couldn’t be bothered to look for your brother? That mother?
orinoco womble almost 3 years ago
The 10 Million Dollar Baby Sitter.
littlejohn Premium Member almost 3 years ago
I wonder if they are going to Benji? The movie came out about this time I do believe.
Major Matt Mason Premium Member almost 3 years ago
“So what’s this Ishtar movie all about, anyway?”
knutdl almost 3 years ago
Why did the mother want her out of the house?
therese_callahan2002 almost 3 years ago
At the time this strip was published, Benji was the only kid friendly movie released in 1974.
Looneytunes65 almost 3 years ago
Back when kids could go to the movies by themselves.
Hazelnut King almost 3 years ago
This must be taking place in an alternate Peanuts Universe – Sally and Linus are calmly sitting next to each other at the movies! I remember a number of occasions where Sally wanted to sit with her “sweet Babboo” at the movies, and Linus didn’t want any part of it. Here, he’s happy to be watching the film in Sally’s company, and Sally isn’t as excited as one would have expected her to be.
Decepticomic almost 3 years ago
Pfft! “10 million dollars”! Gotta add a zero to that these days.
Darryl Heine almost 3 years ago
Think of how much movie theatres lost when the COVID pandemic hit last year and made a large number of movies get delayed or sent to streaming.
dcandmx almost 3 years ago
Sally is so good at identifying the incongruous.
Gameguy49 Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Where do they live that has yellow money?
A.Ficionada almost 3 years ago
Not shocked her mom wanted her out of the house, and she would’ve paid more, lol
Robert Wilson Premium Member almost 3 years ago
Saturday matinees at the Whiteman Air Force Base theater in Missouri were 25 cents in the mid-1960s. There would be a newsreel, a back-and-white weekly serial from the 1940s or 1950s and then a family rated movie. What is more, our parents would give us the money for the movie in addition to our weekly allowance just to get us out of the house for a couple of hours. We would meet our friends there and everybody would try to get a seat as close to the front row as possible.
Ellis97 almost 3 years ago
Why makes millions when you can make…thousands?
geese28 almost 3 years ago
Nowadays 10 mill is minimum wage for some actors
raybarb44 almost 3 years ago
Shows how much she cares for you……
summerdog almost 3 years ago
Well, you guys refused to go to summer camp, so they have to get rid of you somehow.
Zebrastripes almost 3 years ago
LOL!
knight1192a almost 3 years ago
Must be nice to live so near a movie theater. We never lived that close to one so when mom wanted us out of the house she just told us to go play outside.
this is summerdog almost 3 years ago
I have a strange craving for popcorn.
Mediatech almost 3 years ago
Money well spent.
briangj2 almost 3 years ago
Some movies released in 1974:
“Blazing Saddles”
“Towering Inferno”
“Young Frankenstein”
“Earthquake”
“The Godfather, Part II”
“Airport ’75”
“The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams”
“The Murder on the Orient Express”
“Herbie Rides Again”
“Benji”
“The Great Gadsby”
“Chinatown”
“The Man with the Golden Gun”
“That’s Entertainment”
“The Golden Voyage of Sinbad”
w16521 almost 3 years ago
Today’s Peanuts shows its age. Even non-special effect movies costs about 5x what they did back in the 70’s.
Mandakolan almost 3 years ago
Oh what a thoughtful pretext for the young girl to imagine and tell !!! No doubt she is clever. – “M.K. Subramanian”.